For over a month now, PC players for Respawn Entertainment's Apex Legends have rejoiced over having the ability to play the game on Steam. The free-to-play battle royale has seen a swell of players since it became available on the gaming client, with it recently being reported that Apex Legends was touting over 100,000 concurrent players in its first week. And while this number is impressive, the experience has been far from perfect for some players.
In particular, players have noticed that the Steam version of Apex Legends can sometimes come with a significant amount of input delay. For those that don't know, input delay is the amount of time between when a player pushes a button or key and when the game responds with the corresponding action. Naturally, those that are playing competitive games like Apex Legends want this delay to be as close to 0 as possible.
While input delay is incredibly frustrating to deal with, Twitter user @Jxneyy_ has created an easy to follow solution for this problem. After clicking on Apex Legends in the Steam Library, players will want to click on the Manage icon. Once there, players will have to scroll down to the Properties option, followed by clicking on Set Launch Options. Players need to then type the following line into the dialog box that pops up: '+fps_max'. Following the word 'max,' type in the number of frames the monitor is set to. Players can find this in the Advanced section of their Display settings if they are unsure.
This input lag may have an easy solution for players, but unfortunately, other recent issues aren’t as simple. Since quarantine began,Apex Legendsplayers seem to be finding glitches and bugs on a daily basis. One recent discovery saw players trapped within crates on the new Winter Express LTM.
These bugs may be frustrating for players, however, Respawn seems to have a good explanation for why it may be a little slower on updates than other games. Recently, Apex Legends director Chad Grenier stated that he refused to have the team endure crunch conditions in order to speed up new additions. And while this comment was directed at new content, it's quite likely that this same philosophy could be applied to the team's attitude towards bugs. Apex Legends fans will just have to sit tight and patiently wait for Respawn Entertainment to fix these known issues as they are known to efficiently do.
Apex Legends is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. A Switch version is currently in development.
